Definition of Behave

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Behave

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.

To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

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Behave Quotations

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Deepak Chopra

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
Josef Albers

Behave Translations

behave in Afrikaans is gedra hom
behave in Dutch is zich gedragen
behave in German is sich verhalten, benehmen
behave in Italian is comportamento
behave in Portuguese is comporte-se
behave in Spanish is comportarse, modales

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